also they are planning on using mobile phones as electronic wallets so everything about you including your email, location data and contacts will be
easily available at the same touch of a button.

electronic RF implants anyone? there are already trials.

If we dont stop buying into these technologies we will end up in a situation where we are required to have them and not having them would make life
very difficult. problem is they dont want you knowing what they are doing...softly softly catch the monkey!

stop using google, apple, facebook or any other corporation or service that thinks your privacy is their property to be sold to the highest bidder.

the fish pie, broccoli and bread-and-butter pudding she ate afterwards.

that just sounds awful

Lol. Thats a nice one and a nice avatar too.
On another note, the tptb have and have always had a more subtler metaphysical ,means for surveillance.
The KGB can view you even without cameras of any kind.

I made a few "not normal" purchases once and the credit card company stopped my card.

It was done in the name of my "security".

But its obvious that they track your purchase history.

I was kind of thankful and disturbed at the same time

Similar thing for me but instead of freezing my card my bank phoned me. Which was good as I was two days away from heading to the U.S, I was buying up
because you get the tax you paid put back on your credit card at the airport if you have the receipt and you bought the items within a few days of
heading overseas, at least for sport gear anyway and you can carry it on the plane, and it would have been a pain to have my card frozen while over
seas and the lady said that had the transaction taken place over seas they would have frozen it if they hadn't known I was overseas. So I guess we
do need some kind of vigilance to reduce crime but I think that no body other than your bank should have access to that info.

the fish pie, broccoli and bread-and-butter pudding she ate afterwards.

that just sounds awful

Lol. Thats a nice one and a nice avatar too.
On another note, the tptb have and have always had a more subtler metaphysical ,means for surveillance.
The KGB can view you even without cameras of any kind.

Originally posted by pikestaff
I don't have a cell phone, store cards, pay cash at the till, no WiFi, but I will bet some one, some where, knows what I am doing, but, I look silly
wearing my foil hat in public.

Do what I do, wear your lead lined tinfoil hat under your favourite hat.

What is worse is that modern technology is encouraging users to voluntarily supply their data. Social networking sites that encourage users to "check
in" to places, etc. It's become the trend to lead a very transparent life, so in a lot of cases such collection of data is considered completely
normal, and most people do not even think twice about happily handing over the information on their whereabouts and general activities.

It's an exploitation of the psychological tendency to prefer immediate gain over long term satisfaction. In this case the instant gratification is
when the person communicating their data is greeted by responses from friends. People's social behaviour has become so enmeshed with technological
networking that transmitting data has become a crucial part of social interaction.

In the DM paper sheets a couple of months ago , there was a story about a man who had installed a security system on his laptop whereby he could
remotely turn the system on to access his webcam and mic.
His laptop was stolen , and he immediately had an id on the person who pinched it . He was watching and listening to him use it, right up close .
Beleive it or not , when he informed the police , they did nothing about it .

It was only when he set up a growingly popular blog entitled "This man stole my laptop > let's watch him" that the police took any action at all .
Hence the newspaper article .

Stuff like this is quite shocking. I knew that there was some of this going on, but never to this scale. I'm guessing they pulled the info from a
lot of sources an dpieced it together chronologically to create a picture of her day. All TPTB need now, if they don't already have it, is a piece
of software to do that for them.

Combine that with some AI and some knowledge in trend prediction and they can almost know what you are likely to be doing before you do.

Just download Google Earth and you can see plain as day how technology in the future will allow Big Brother to know everything that is going on.All
those transactions and everything you type on computers are stored into databases.Wait until RFID technology takes off into the public and becomes a
global market.

Originally posted by DeepThoughtCriminal
What is worse is that modern technology is encouraging users to voluntarily supply their data. Social networking sites that encourage users to "check
in" to places, etc. It's become the trend to lead a very transparent life, so in a lot of cases such collection of data is considered completely
normal, and most people do not even think twice about happily handing over the information on their whereabouts and general activities.

It's an exploitation of the psychological tendency to prefer immediate gain over long term satisfaction. In this case the instant gratification is
when the person communicating their data is greeted by responses from friends. People's social behaviour has become so enmeshed with technological
networking that transmitting data has become a crucial part of social interaction.

I have seen an example of that on this site today with a supposed astrologist asking for peoples date of birth and lication on the promise of being
told of their "soul mate"

How do they even know that this person is not just collating info on site members?

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